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Re: Using only one dumper

2003-04-06 20:19:51
Subject: Re: Using only one dumper
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch AT ccmr.cornell DOT edu>
To: Vytas Janusauskas <vytas AT dendron DOT com>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 19:02:56 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:

> Just sitting here watching the amstatus report and have noticed that only 1
> dumper is being used.   I am archiving about 40 DLEs via Samba they all are
> referenced on one host in the disklist. Is this the reason?

It's either that or you're dumping straight to tape without staging to
holding disk first.

> Is there a
> way to use more dumpers when archiving via Samba?

Assuming the first cause, you can either increase inparallel or spread
your samba DLEs across multiple samba clients, or some of both.

-Mitch

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